In the uber-leftist utopia of Seattle Washington (a city whose gay Democrat mayor is having to step down after a scandal involving him paying for sex with underage boys) , Police have been instructed to no longer use the term “suspect,” but must describe those suspected of committing crimes as “members of the community.” Because surely this change of words will help end crime and social inequality.
When Seattle police officers write use of force reports they no longer call a suspect a suspect.
“Community member” is the new term. Several officers say the term is offensive, explaining their work with violent suspects.
Sources point to the suspect who shot three officers last month after a downtown Seattle armed robbery. When officers involved in that incident were writing their use of force reports they were required to refer to the shooter, Damarius Butts, as a “community member,” not a suspect, police sources said.
Also, inmates in the city’s jails may no longer be referred to as “inmates,” but the politically correct mandated term is “students.” Because the delicate feelings of violent criminals are just, oh so precious.
OFGS.
We.are.all.gonna.die …horribly.
It might make sense to call residents of the jail “students” as the inmates all seem to reside outside of the jail.
As far as the mayor goes, his accuser is telling a tale that allegedly happened 31 years ago. After all this time, my bet is that there is little, if any, physical evidence and witnesses are going to be difficult to find. I can’t automatically believe the accuser’s story. He said/he said.
Let’s put it all together.
In Manchester UK, a community member bombed a concert for girls. He wounded-or-killed dozens of them. If we are very good, our SJW betters might ensure that such community members become students. Or maybe not. If our betters feel like it. And if we don’t do something hateful, like voting for Brexit or Trump, to merit the punishment from community members.
I think that’s where all this is headed.
This new terminology is just the halfway layover in the journey to righteous Progressive nirvana.
The ultimate language will morph from “community member” to “VIP.” [VIP being, “victim, innocence presumed.]
As to Seattle, I hope people understand how unlike the rest of the State of Washington population are from the loons of Seattle.
My goal this year is to have one last trip to the left coast to see a few things, and then have travels that no longer include the left coast states. In Seattle, I hope to see the Space Needle and monorail and have coffee at a non-Starbucks coffee shop. There are a couple of things that I want to see in California. Then, I hope to not spend another dime in those states other than for things like agricultural and similar products. Apologies to the sane people in those three states, but the lunatics have definitely taken over the asylums (assyla?) there.
KCRob, regarding 31 year old hearsay evidence, I agree with you, and hope you also use the same logic with Bill Cosby and Kevin Clash.
I suspect you do.
#4, Heliotrope, I just lost it when reading your prediction that the terminology will end up as VIP. I will never be the same. That would be ::so Seattle:: & I also hope that people understand that Seattle is its own special oddity, different from the rest of western Washington as western Washington is different from the rest of the state.
Seattle starting losing it in the early 90s. It was interesting before that.
I’m confident that the new terminologies there will get worse, even as their choice of mayors has gotten worse, from bad to disastrous. At least, until their next WTO Riot.
Don’t forget that “students” can’t live in “prisons”. First thought is to call them “education centers”. But since all bad behavior is learned behavior (young children are perfect as they are and don’t need to know anything beyond what kindergarten teaches – be nice to everyone, the teacher knows everything, everybody gets nap time & snacks & recess, and the way to get money is by performing natural bodily functions like losing teeth), the purpose of this institution is to “reeducate” people so that they go back to knowing what they felt was true all along. Hence we now have our very own “reeducation centers”!
Gees, I was considering relocation to Seattle or Tacoma at some point — great sailing territory. But increasingly it seems to be a parody of the ills of San Francisco; PC-madness, $15./hr barristas, rampant Portlandiaisms, and runaway real estate costs.
The inmates of the asylum have systematically-ruined all the formerly cool places to move-to — San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Toronto, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle-Tacoma — with their self-nestfouling ways.
What is the reasoning behind these changes in terminology? To call someone a suspect indicates suspicion, not actual guilt. On the other hand, calling a suspect a community member indicates that he or she was just trying to be part of the community by committing a heinous crime that rocks that community to the core…makes no sense…being an educator, I don’t get the inmate=student reference at all
As a queer police officer in King County, I can tell you first hand how much utter bullshit this is. I am thankful that my department still has their balls (unlike SPD) and can still do our jobs without worrying about hurting someone’s feelings. I love working for my department (and have wanted to be a police officer since I was a kid) but being tied to Seattle via King County is making it harder and harder to want to stay in this profession…
@TAD The reason we were told as to why it changed was because inmates are just “trouble people who have to learn how to act in society”, thus becoming a student of… get this, not breaking the law. As for “community member”, that changed because everyone in Seattle was too butt hurt over the term suspect. No way around it. Suspect sounded bad. It sounded mean. We can’t be mean to criminals! No! They’re just students learning how to not break the law after all! Oiy.
Dedwar 24 – Thanks for taking on the job of being a cop. It is a noble calling and we, the protected, appreciate your service.
TAD – The first thing every phony movement does is to create a mystique and then protect it. The “mystique” almost always involves a unique speech code. When the Hitler group started gaining power, a brilliant professor in Dresden took note of how the language was being manipulated and started keeping track of it. He, Victor Klemperer, called it “LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii.” It was his belief that the language of the government was meant to remold the culture.
I am not comparing Progressive language manipulation to Aryan, Teutonic superiority propaganda, but the vehicle is the same.
The core of liberal arts was always about differing points of view. Now, on campus after campus liberal arts is grounded in censoring speech that is “offensive” to the “correct” point of view. There is no discussion there is only censorship, reeducation, and penalty.
Education is not about the search, it is about protecting the “correct” point of view and making other points of view verboten.
No kid signs up to hear some person spout off about culture or politics. Yet, classrooms everywhere are staffed with people who are opinion mongers. Often a student asks the teacher: “what do you think?” That is not an invitation to unroll personal opinions. Often as not, it is a ploy to waste time. The answer to that question is always the same: “Let’s examine the various points of view.”
Many teachers have become little different from the press in that they take every possible opportunity to editorialize and plant seeds of their own point of view. That is how so many colleges have ruined the liberal arts. A “conservative” faculty member must wear camouflage and be extremely careful about being ratted out as a “subversive.”
“Safe places” are the result of impetuous adolescents demanding the protection of NeverNeverLand eternal immaturity. Can you imagine having a “safe place” heart surgeon being confronted with an “offensive” tat on the chest of the patient?
What is most important in all of this is to note that if the cops in Seattle do not yield to the cultural language dictums of the political elite, they will be crushed. In that respect, the LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii is in play.
Drug dealer: undocumented pharmacist.